Dave Kellam

Mad Magazine created a spot on parody of The Onion. In an unrelated note, everything looks like ass in Netscape 4.51 on a Sun Ultrasparc. On the plus side, the keyboard has a ‘props’ key.

For some reason, I hacked off the hair on my chin. I don’t really know why. The last time I did that was about three years ago and that lasted for a day. Prior to about five minutes ago, I hadn’t shaved in about a week and half. Go figure. I will post a picture at some point. I’ll also probably start growing my goatee again. And my apologies to Ryan, I will rejoin the club soon.

Here’s a good read on abstraction in software development. It’s on a level even people who haven’t taken reams of compsci can understand.

Eric Weissetein’s World of Mathematics is a good math resource. It seems to have many things that you may want to know. Or maybe math just isn’t cool with the kids anymore.

Ken Perlin came up with this idea of procedural texture maps; adding noise to a basic pattern to make it seem more natural. His website does a pretty good job explaining things, the marble texuring is a good example, the veins look much more real with noise.

Studying for another graphics midterm. I don’t think I’ll do better than the last one, but it shouldn’t be too bad.

I have to admit that my respect for Tom Petty has gone up a couple of notches, he has some smart things to say about the state of the entertainment industry. Irony can also be found in the ads I saw on the same page for the Christina’s ‘Dirty’ video.

I’ve been kept busy with a lot of school work lately, drawn away by group projects and whatnot. So, I’ve been neglecting my computer and website. They’re both hurt inside.

Things overheard at an STD clinic. It’s gold I tell you, pure gold.

Monkey riding dog, chasing sheep.

Analysts at MIT have shown that Tetris is hard, NP-hard. Basically, even given all of the pieces in advance it’s still pretty much impossible to come up with the solution to the puzzle. I have to say that I played way too much Tetris 2 this past summer. The two player mode is very addictive. Here’s an faq detailing some strategy for approaching the Tetris world.

It seems that campus newspaper’s will always get into trouble for something. I think it’s just part of university life; there’s the vocal right wings and left wings that tend to have sway over the administration. I find that most students tend to be somewhere in the middle and really don’t care what gets published. They just don’t want to waste their time reading utter crap. That being said, it was in Utah where there’s a very vocal right wing, the results don’t surprise me. It happens here too; Golden Words and The Queen’s Journal, there’s always someone pissed off about something. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter too much. College papers can be seen as a stepping stone to real world newspapers, although even some of those are not the bastion of journalistic integrity that we’d like them to be. I find a lot of feedback tends to be negative, it might be nice to have some letters oozing praise to wave in the face of the dean. Enough, that was much more rant-like than I intended it to be.

What a great headline for an article.

Woodward and Bernstein on journalism: “The bottom line in our business increasingly has become the bottom line – not the truth.”